| Museum membership secy, Graham Philip, with Mrs Margaret Urquhart, whose late husband David was, like herself, a member of the Auxiliary Fire Service, both being attached to the Cheshire, England, AFS in the 1950s. That unit had a Green Goddess which went on call with the regular fire engines, and when Mrs Urquhart saw the museum example at last year's airfield event, she decided to donate to us the items of kit and uniform her late husband had used. Mr Urquhart maintained his interest in the AFS wherever he moved in the country, and founded a crew on the Isle of Bute. In 1969 they moved to Brechin, Angus, and applied to set up a unit there, but by that time the Civil Defence and the AFS were disbanded. During the Firemen's strike of 1977 David helped to provide cover with the army and the Green Goddesses, and during the severe flooding in Arbroath, Angus, in 1977/78 he got a 'GG' out of mothballs to help with the clearing up. The museum is grateful to Mrs Urquhart and family for the donation of the items. |